To further encourage residents to turn to bikes as their primary means of transportation, the Marikina City Bikeways Office Sunday opened a new 2.3-kilometer bike lane connecting Barangay Tumana to the Santolan station of the Light Railway Transit (LRT) Line 2.

Because of the new bike lane, which cost the city about P16 million, residents going outside the city can save on fare or gasoline, bikeways office head Lota Contreras told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Posted: 12 February 2007

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